sheer art

As you may remember, I popped into Mavromac in Cape Town last week and caught up on their new ranges. I'm nuts about their new Sheet Art collection because:

a) It's so so beautiful!

b) The designs are so easy to use and are gender-neutral

c) It's not too "pretty-pretty" (know what I mean?)

d) I love sheers because I loathe utterly dark bedrooms (let me see the moonlight!!!)

The first design is my favourite. It's called watercolour and it somehow nails being soft and strong at the same time.

The glorious design below is called Leaf Sketch and I think there's such a purity of design about it. It's simple but interesting.

Shadow Palm comes in these four muted tones. I love that they're a quiet take on the riotous tropical trend. 

The designs below are called Java and Bali and they come in the same muted tones. 

Here's Java layed out flat. I can't decide between the Indigo blue and the pale blue. So stunning.

 The last design, Circles in the Sand (yes, I did straight away think of the song by Belinda Carlisle :D) reminds me of the patterning that is used in Moroccan ironwork and tiles. 

Till next time lovely nerds x :)

passion project #creativecharity

Hello nerds!!

Gasp! Horror of horrors, I just saw that my last post happened sometime mid-year. Oh, the shame! Perhaps you'll forgive my AWOL if I explain that I've been working on my passion project.

Yesterday, quite serendipitously, a friend emailed me and asked me where she could find fabric with dogs printed on it. This reminded me that it's high time I launched my passion project. I'm very excited to publically launch my #creativecharity initiative. The clue to which, lies in the images below. 

The first two prints are from Luli Sanchez and they are bold and naive but not too childish. I'm mad, mad, mad for the sausage dog one. (BTW, check out all her other prints, they're INCREDIBLE!)

What's in the bags? Eeeek, so exciting. Inside these bags are beautiful discontinued fabric samples that will be used to make stunning, high-end items like quilts and scatter cushions that will be sold for charity! The incredible folk at Mavromac were so open-hearted and generous when I told them about this project - they gave me a whole bunch of beautiful fabric pieces that will be repurposed for a charity called.... TEARS (The Emma Animal Rescue Society). Thank you thank you thank you!

The dogs desperately wanted to be part of what I was doing and as you can see, were a BIG help :) This is Lacey snuggling up to some linen. That dawg has good taste!

We now take a quick break to look at some more dog printed fabric. Ta-daaaa... left to right these are available from Just Fabrics, Emily Bowen Designs and Fabrics.com.

I feel it's always important to colour-code your dog and your fabric. Pepsi insisted on lying alongside this gorgeous linen printed with a mendhi floral design.

The wonderful Diana Kraak from Enviana Quilts has kindly donated her quilting service for the quilt that will be made with the sample pieces. I had BIG FUN sorting, selecting and co-ordinating the samples yesterday afternoon. Hashtag nerdalert.

If you haven't heard of TEARS, they are an animal welfare NPO that operate in the Southern Peninsula in Cape Town. They do incredible work via their outreach programmes and through their clinic and shelter. They rehome, rehabilitate and rescue all furkids in need.

Last but not least, in fact even last for favourite...a final collage to celebrate all that is dawgs. How totally cool and awesome are these prints by Spoonflower? 

(Below, also by Spoonflower <3)

If you want to know how you can get involved with this #creativecharity campaign, send a message via The Fabric Nerd Facebook page and I'll get in touch.

Till later nerds,

Yours in fabric and furkids :) x <3